Verily I say unto thee, that Linonut spake thusly:
> I had a rescue disk save my ass today.
>
> My daughter brought back her old laptop from school, the one that went
> belly up, the one we replaced with yet another DELL system.
>
> So I take it, stick in a GParted CD, and boot it up. Cool, it seems to
> work well. I remove the NTFS partition.
>
> Then my wife walks in, sees me working on it, asks if I fixed it. "Nah,
> not yet."
>
> She then says, don't forget to get her pictures off of it.
>
> Gulp.
Huh, Wimin!
Doncha love the way they hold back vital information about things, and
then just let it dribble out casually later on, like it's no biggie?
Me neither.
> I'm thinking, what? She told me she got everything months ago!
>
> My ass was, at that point, grass.
>
> So I spent some time googooing. I burn another CD, SystemRescueCD,
> boot it, and then use a nice little command-line app called TestDisk to
> detect the NTFS partition, and then rebuild the partition table.
It's an indispensable tool. In fact I'd go as far as saying it should be
included by default with every PC sold.
> My ass was, at that point, saved.
>
> The computer still has a problem in that it sometimes boots badly, with
> the annunciator diodes flashing and the system giving off a diagnostic
> beep pattern.
>
> But once it boots, it seems to work fine. Might make a nice little
> music server for the entertainment center.
Well you don't need to worry about passà things like rebooting, now that
you've installed Linux.
> Where can I get a Linux Certificate of Authenticity, though?
Hey it Linux! *You* *are* the authenticator. Print your own.
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K.
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